Something like “this is the meta description for this tag: $tag”

Ps: sorry for my english but it’s not my mother language.

Excellent solution you got there. Hopefully, I will be able to try it as soon as possible (no time to test codes lately being busy to my other blogs and my full time work).

If the strip_tags is what I think it is, I think it should also be placed in the category description line since category description also puts paragraph tag by default.

One small improvement (for WordPress 3.1.4 with theme derived from TwentyTen): my theme uses HTML tags in the_excerpt(), e.g. for the “Continue reading →” hyperlink.

I find the following solution more satisfactory and complete:

if (is_single()) { echo(strip_tags(get_the_excerpt())); }
elseif (is_category()) { echo category_description(); }
elseif (is_home()) { bloginfo(‘name’);bloginfo(‘description’);}
else { bloginfo(‘name’);echo(‘&#x2014′);wp_title(‘|’,true);}

Note the PHP function, “strip_tags(get_the_excerpt())”

I’m not quite sure what you are trying to do here. From what I understand, you use a slightly different code from what I described here and you are trying to use the category description as meta description of static pages and posts.

If how I understand what you are saying is correct, then that’s not possible. Category description works only on category pages. It does not work in static pages and in posts, even if that post belongs to specific category.

but now i have not description on post ( and i believe in page too).

So could you suggest me the code to add in the code above to permit that my headspace2 description do its work:-))).

Regards

@Che – As far as I know, WordPress codex operates like a wiki. Most of the information provided there are written by WordPress users who took some time to volunteer writing them. Perhaps, it just happened that none of the volunteer writers encountered this tweak.

@Andrew – Thanks for the information. I will test it sometime later although I don’t use tags that much.

that the_excerpt function only works within the lopp.

elseif ( is_tag() ) { echo strip_tags( tag_description() ); }

strip_tags is needed because by default WordPress adds p tags around tag_description.